"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day."
"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein."
"Religion is the opium of the poor"
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."